Edward Gerard Winter is a British journalist, archivist, collector, author and one of the world's most notable chess historians.

He is the author of several important books, including World Chess Champions (1981), CAPABLANCA: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illustrations and Other Rare Archival Materials on the Cuban Chess Genius José Raúl Capablanca, 1888-1942 (1989), Chess Explorations (1996), Kings, Commoners and Knaves (1999), A Chess Omnibus (2003), and Chess Facts and Fables (2006).

Winter maintains the Chess History Center website (http://www.chesshistory.com), which hosts and archives his regular column, Chess Notes. He now lives in Switzerland.

One time some decades ago I was rolling my shopping cart into the local grocery store, when I noticed an ad to the right (on the wall where the store lets people post ads) that displayed a lot of breast. (It was some sort of breastfeeding-related ad.) I turned my head to look at it and, distracted, crashed my shopping cart into the wall. A woman looked to see what had distracted me so, and cracked up laughing.

OhioChessFan: <FSR: One time some decades ago I was rolling my shopping cart into the local grocery store, when I noticed an ad to the right (on the wall where the store lets people post ads) that displayed a lot of breast. (It was some sort of breastfeeding-related ad.) I turned my head to look at it and, distracted, crashed my shopping cart into the wall. A woman looked to see what had distracted me so, and cracked up laughing.>

One Sunday morning heading to church, I stopped for a cup of coffee. I never use sleeves but they put one on without me asking. Facing me, the sleeve listed the name of the coffee shop. I got to church, and walked in holding the coffee when the minister did a double take and said "What is that?" I didn't think he was taking offense to bringing coffee in, so I didn't know what he was talking about. A woman started laughing and said "Doing some advertising?"

Thoroughly confused, she said "Turn the cup around." On the other half of the sleeve, facing away from me, and toward the world, was an ad for lingerie. It featured a pretty and rather amply endowed blonde. I didn't mind too much, not enough laughter in the world, but still a bit embarrassing.

waustad: As <ray_keene> said: <for years i thought he was a crusty old gent ( like me now) not a kid! ( well hes not a kid any more but hes younger than me!!)> That's exactly my take on it. I had no idea he was still in his 50s.

On the one hand, Winter spent a liitle time focusing on the use of the word 'hypermodern', which, I don't find worthwhile. But the thrust of the article is about those who anticipated hypermodern play, which, I feel is the sort of thing chess historians SHOULD be doing.

I suggest that another precursor to hypermodernism was Steinitz. In this game, he played the Advance Variation against the French, and over protected E5:

Now, he's tearing into chess forums, in general, but, no doubt, this site, in particular:

<There are other possibilities too, of course, and of all the lessons to be learned from the shambolic, sprawling rumpus over ‘Vive la Différence’ (an article still being discussed by individuals who have not read it) a neglected one is mentioned here, in the context of any current issues (as opposed to history and lore): the lack of a proper on-line chess forum where topical controversies can be discussed in depth; where comprehensive and comprehensible coverage is founded on facts and informed opinions; where contributions bear the writer’s real name; where hearsay is absent; where wit is welcome but glib illiterates are not; where Internet links are supplied only if they lead to something worthwhile; where irrelevancy and repetition are avoided; where strong criticism of people and of ideas is expressed solely if based on substantiated information; where all relevant sources are cited; where points are not deemed true, or even noteworthy, merely because they come from the mainstream media; where press articles by non-chess-specialists are treated not with automatic gratitude but with particular caution; where misquotation is excoriated; where the debate, however lively, is moderated with rigorous even-handedness; where good linguistic standards are ensured; where contributors and readers are treated with the respect that they deserve; where anyone, including top-level masters, would be proud to have a contribution posted.

Wanted: one topical chess forum where 100% of the contributions are worth reading, and not 100 forums where 1% are.>

MissScarlett: Do you have the initials of the parents of that Edward G? I think I may know the identity of Winter's parents, but am reluctant to publicise the full names because i)I might be wrong, ii)I might be right.

Tabanus: I just copied from the ancestry source: "Inferred County: Yorkshire, Northumberland, Westmorland", but that's wrong. Anyway, I think that if Mr. Winter was interested in telling his details (it seems he is not), we would have known already.

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